Tesla owner reveals how their six-year-old Model 3 cost them just over 2 cents per mile for 16,000 miles

This Tesla owner says running a Model 3 only cost them about 2 cents per mile for 16,000 miles.

That’s about four times less than an equivalent ICE car.

The cost included charging, but it didn’t include maintenance of any kind.

But it’s still quite impressive.

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How this Tesla owner saved money with the Model 3

A Tesla owner shared a detailed breakdown of the cost of running a 2018 Tesla Model 3 on her YouTube channel CallasEV.

The car is six years old and has done 132,289 miles.

Between September 2023 and August 2024, the Model 3 did 16,000 miles.

The total cost was $375, which works out at $0.023 per mile.

This obviously only includes charging costs, but it’s impressive.

You’d need well over $1,000 to run a gas-powered BMW or Audi of similar size and with equivalent performance.

This is still a deal breaker for EVs

There are several reasons why some people are still not sold on EVs, and charging-related concerns are still a potential deal breaker.

These problems are getting smaller, but they still exist.

Charging an EV is almost always cheaper than filling up a tank, almost everywhere, but this varies a lot.

A while back, a Cybertruck owner shared how much it cost him to charge the truck, and it wasn’t exactly a jaw-dropping difference when compared to, say, a Ford F-150.

Also, charging still takes too long, a potential hurdle that only people who can charge at home can afford to ignore.

Even the Lotus Emeya, which can charge up to 80 percent in just 15 minutes, is still comparatively slow.

Sooner or later parity with gas cars, ie a full ‘tank’ of energy in about two or three minutes, will be reached but until then, age-old questions regarding charging times will continue to matter.